John Overend, joint managing director at Omnicom-owned media operation Opera, said: "Five has had a very disappointing last few years but it has reversed this trend so far this year really on the back of one show - Neighbours.
Since the late 1960s, policy makers have reversed this trend.
While "massive imprisonment" has not reversed this trend, it "removes the most crime-prone individuals from the streets, incapacitating them".
It is also not surprising that shocking episodes like the Aurora shooting (or Virginia Tech, or Columbine) haven't reversed this trend.
But the publisher's Good Housekeeping reversed this trend, up 1.1% year-on-year to 430,089 and 4.9% on the first half to sell an average of 430,089 each month.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, which is owned by Knight Ridder and has seen a severe erosion of both daily and Sunday circulation in recent years, reversed this trend in the latest report, with a 2.41percentt gain in daily circulation, to 374,000, and a 2.13percentt gain in Sunday circulation, to 748,000.
